conversant

• conversaunt (obsolete)

From Old French conversant, present participle of converser

• (US) IPA^(key): /kənˈvɝsənt/

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conversant (comparative more conversant, superlative most conversant)

1. closely familiar; current; having frequent interaction
2. familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed

   She is equally conversant with Shakespeare and the laws of physics.

   • Dryden

     deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy

   • Alexander Pope

     He uses the different dialects as one who had been conversant with them all.

3. (obsolete) Concerned; occupied.
   • Wotton

     If any think education, because it is conversant about children, to be but a private and domestick duty, he has been ignorantly bred himself.

• generally used with with, sometimes with in

conversant (plural conversants)

1. One who converses with another.

• conservant

conversant

1. present participle of conversar

conversant

1. present participle of converser

• conservant

conversant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of conversō